Calm feed for YouTube
Hides politics and rage-bait on YouTube by what a video is about, not by keywords, and never by viewpoint. No account needed.
Launching soon
How it works
We filter by topic and tone, never by political viewpoint.
What each filter hides
- Politics
- Elections, politicians, policy fights, court rulings, protests and political commentary.
- Rage-bait beta
- Titles built to make you angry at people or groups, including partisan gloating.
- Sports
- Matches, highlights, athletes, teams, leagues and sports commentary.
- True crime
- Real crimes, investigations, trials and true-crime storytelling.
- Celebrity gossip
- Famous people's relationships, scandals, feuds and rumors.
Politics and Rage-bait are on by default. You can switch any filter on or off, pick a sensitivity, and always allow or hide a channel.
How a video gets checked
- As tiles appear on YouTube, Breather reads what each tile already shows: the title, the channel name and handle, and the video ID.
- It sends that to the Breather server, which asks a language model (Jev, by TypeSafe) how likely the video is to be about each topic. The model reads meaning, not keyword lists.
- Your settings decide what to hide. Hidden tiles are blurred with a label and a Show button, and everything else about the video (channel, views, date) is blurred too.
What data goes where
Requests carry the tile text and an anonymous install token, never your watch history, account or browsing outside YouTube. Results are cached so the same video isn't checked twice. Anonymous daily counts are sent only if you say yes. Details are in the privacy policy.
What "beta" means
A beta filter is useful but less certain. Rage-bait hides fewer of the clear cases than Politics does, so some angry titles will still get through. We'd rather miss a few than hide calm videos by mistake.
How we tested it
Before launch we checked the filters on 671 real YouTube tiles from searches, everyday trending videos and a hand-collected sample, each labeled by hand: a tile counts as political when the video is primarily about politics or a political issue, whatever side it takes. A viewpoint audit then compared left- and right-leaning political tiles: at the default setting, Politics hid 100% of left-leaning and 97% of right-leaning ones, inside our limit of a 10-point gap.